Newman compares today's half-million baristas to the mid-century auto workers, asking us to see them as the essential industrial workforce of 2025.
As heard by us
A Homestead strike story that connects labor history, art-making, and present-day organizing.
Labor History Today treats the Homestead strike as something still being argued over, using Ting Tong Chang's Hidden Shift at Pittsburgh's Mattress Factory as the frame.
Why you'd press play
Hear the Homestead Strike reframed through film, song, and the labor of making art.
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